Marissa Nadler

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Marissa Nadler (born April 5, 1981) is an American musician and fine artist based in Boston, Massachusetts.

She has been active since 2000 and is currently signed to Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union, as well as her eighth full-length studio album, For My Crimes, which came out in September 2018.

Her music defies categation as a singer-songwriter.

Her work is "rooted in old-school and folk, but it also includes elements of experimental and black metal."

Nadler has won acclaim for her singing in a mezzo-soprano.

Pitchfork's description of her voice as one "you will follow straight into Hades" and then "textured and angelic, with just a hint of agony embedded within her iridescent falsetto."

"She has a voice that may have lured men to their deaths at sea," the Boston Globe said, an euphoric soprano drenched in gauzy reverb that reaches tense heights, lingers, and tapers off like rings of smoke."

Early life

Marissa Nadler was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Needham, Massachusetts. She was raised Jewish. She taught herself to play guitar in a way similar to fingerpicking, playing a steady bass pattern with the thumb and picking out syncopated rhythms with the index finger. It was described as having a "unorthodox, dusky sound." She also started writing songs as a hobby in her teens. She studied art education at Rhode Island School of Design, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in illustration in 2003 and a master's degree in art education a year later. She began performing at open mic performances around Providence during her undergraduate years. She also honed her songwriting skills while exploring artistic skills such as illustration, painting, bookbinding, wood carving, and encaustic painting. She released an album named Autumn Rose (2002) as well as the four-track EP Somber Ghost Recordings (2003), neither of which have ever been released. In 2003, Nadler appeared on the Pearl Before Swine tribute album For the Dead in Space: Volumes II & III.

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Music career

In January 2004, Nadler's first official album, Ballads of Living and Dying, debuted on Eclipse Records. In July 2005, Mayflower Mayflower May's Saga was published. Both albums were released in the United States by Eclipse and the UK name Beautiful Happiness in Europe.

Nadler appeared on several of her first tours, including late American primitive guitarist Jack Rose and the drone metal band Earth.

On March 12, 2007, Nadler's third studio album, Songs III: Bird on the Water, was released in Europe by Peacefrog Records. Greg Weeks of the band Espers in Philadelphia recorded and produced the album in Philadelphia and later released by Kemado Records in the United States and Canada on August 12, 2007. In 2008, it was nominated for two PLUG Independent Music Awards: "Best Female Artist of the Year" and "Best Americana Record of the Year." At the 2008 Boston Music Awards, Nadler also received "Outstanding Singer-Songwriter of the Year" award, earning three nominations in total.

Little Hells, Chris Coady's fourth full-length album, was released on March 3, 2009, and has received acclaim from many critics. Includes four-star reviews from magazines such as Mojo, Rolling Stone in France and Germany, Uncut, and Q. Pitchfork gave it an 8.3 out of 10. With the addition of electronic components, the album evolved from the earlier folk-based template. Nadler appeared on Portal of Sorrow, the last album by black metal project Xasthur in early 2010.

On June 14, 2011, an eponymous record was released worldwide under Nadler's own brand, Box of Cedar Records. On March 8, the song "Baby, I Will Leave You in the Morning" was released as a free download, followed by a new music video. Pitchfork, which gave it an 8.1 out of 10, praised the album as "a superb collection of sullen melodies and lovelorn anecdotes akin to Joni Mitchell's."

The Sister, a short eight-song "companion" album, was released by Marissa Nadler on May 29, 2012. Paste called the album a "impressive concoction of stark minimalism."

In November 2012, Nadler co-produced with Angel Olsen on two cover songs: "My Dreams Have Withered and Died" by Richard and Linda Thompson and the Mickey Newbury song "Frisco Depot" by Nadler.

She joined Sacred Bones Records, a Brooklyn-based record store. July's album was released by the label on February 4, 2014 and Bella Union in the United Kingdom on February 10. It was shot at Avast Studios in Seattle and developed by collaborator Randall Dunn. "Dead City Emily," the album's first single, was released in November 2013 and praised by Stereogum as a "ethereal spine-tingler" and "a track as haunting and delicate as any of her best tracks to date." July debuted at No. 1 in the United States. On the Billboard Folk Albums chart, 16 is the highest on the chart, while No. 98 is No. 16. The Billboard Top Heatseekers albums chart has 14 songs on the Billboard Top Heatseekers.

Music critics expressed praise for July. With a score of 83 out of 100, Metacritic received "universal recognition" for its work. The majority of music publications gave July 4 out of 5 stars, including NME, Drowned in Sound, Blurt, and PopMatters. "The mood of the album is a moody ride through heat spells and night drives," Nadler's quiet songwriting and ethereal sound give July a feel that's almost sinister." Nadler's singing, according to Steven Rosen of Blurt, she achieved a "most-hallucinatory effect out of her singing, often multi-tracking the voice to create a sombre pillowing effect."

Nadler collaborated with Father John Misty in July 2014, resulting in a split 7-inch on Bella Union. "Drive" was covered by Father John Misty, while Nadler covered "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings."

Strangers, a 2015 album by producer Dunn, was released on May 20, 2016, on Sacred Bones and Bella Union. Bury Your Name was limited to a limited edition with original artwork, as well as a pre-release cassette of Bury Your Name. The album was accompanied by a long tour of North America and Europe. Nadler joined Ghost for the United States Tour in late 2016.

Strangers earns a 76 out of 100 points from Metacritic based on "generally positive reviews." Spin, Newsweek, Uncut, and The Quietus were among several lists of the best albums to date, including Spin, Newsweek, Uncut, and The Quietus. "Janie in Love" was also listed as one of the best songs of 2016 so far.

Nadler produced and animated music videos for Strangers' "Janie in Love" and "All the Colors of the Dark," as well as "Blood and Tears," a Danzig cover she had self-released as a digital-only single for Halloween 2015. On Pitchfork.tv, a video for the Strangers song "Dissolve" was released in late September 2016.

Nadler appeared on the Lawrence Rothman album The Book of Law (2017) and Ojalá (2017), a pair featuring Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) and Richie Thomas (Dif Juz, the Jesus and Mary Chain), after touring Europe and North America supporting Strangers. Leave the Light On: Bedroom Recordings, Nadler's first compilation album, was released on September 15, 2017, a collection of home recordings and demos dating back to 2014. On Bandcamp, she has also released two covers albums for free download.

Sacred Bones released For My Crimes, Nadler's eighth studio album, on September 28, 2018. "In comparison to the 2014 break-up album July, Rolling Stone wrote that "the easy reality of being a lover, the epilogue to a happily-ever-after-love tale as real life kicks in." It was her first album cover to feature her fine art, an unidentified painting. Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, and Kristin Kontrol's guest vocals appeared on the album. Thomas McMahan, who "uses various experimental and mixed media animation techniques, blends the mood and image of the song with hallucinatory animations," Nadler's costume designer and stylist Jenni Hensler's "Dissolve" on the album was produced and put together by Nadler.tv's Pitchfork.tv performance clip for "Dissolve." Critics and followers alike reacted favorably to My Crimes.

"Poison," Nadler's collaborative track with John Cale, debuted on February 21, 2019. "If We Make It Through The Summer" was her second song on the record. On April 26, 2019, Droneflower's collaborative album with Stephen Brodsky was released. The album received good feedback, with Soundblab's 8/10 from Atwood Magazine, 7/10 from Earbuddy, 3.5/5 from The Thin Air, and 4.5/5 from Cryptic Rock all scoring, with Atwood Magazine giving the 8/10 score from Atwood. "This mind meld between Nadler and Brodsky is unexpectedly brilliant," the music website Everythingisnoise noted. In a favorable review, the collaboration between the two organizations was described as a "cosmic collision" by the SLUG Magazine. Droneflower appeared at three East Coast shows in June 2019, as well as the introduction of a claymation video of "For the Sun." Nadler and Brodsky also released two cover songs on Bandcamp that weren't on the Droneflower album: "In the air tonight" by Phil Collins and "More than words" by Extreme on December 6, 2019. With a stage performance and a simultaneous exhibition of self-portrait paintings, Nadler's figurative and sonic works converged at the Grauzone Festival in The Hague in February 2020. In addition, two limited-edition books of photography, a preview of Simon & Garfunkel's "Old Friends/Bookends," and two albums of previously unreleased songs and demos were published in Unearthed and Covers 3. The EP moons were announced on July 3rd, which has a meditative, ambient atmosphere.

She released the single "Sleepwalk & Lonely People" in February 2021 and the compilation album Instead of Dreaming came out in May 2021.

On October 29, 2021, Nadler's Path of the Clouds, her ninth solo album, was released. "Never lust robbed the album, but soon housebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler returned to writing and came back with a stunning collection of songs about metamorphosis, passion, misticism, and murder," the album's founders, as others. "[e]scape is a central theme of the album, and several songs refer to historical accounts of mysterious disappearances, but others are infused with personal experience, blurring the boundary between fact and fiction," UNCUT's review states. This self-produced album showcases her discography's most sonically rich piece. Various guests appear on The Path of the Clouds, including harpist Mary Lattimore and former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde. Emma Ruth Rundle contributes a guitar solo to "Turned into Air," while Black Mountain's Amber Webber supports vocals on "Elegy." Milky Burgess performed a variety of instruments on the album.

The Path of the Clouds has received scathing reviews. "This is a departure for Nadler in a variety of ways, with more sophisticated production, novelistic storytelling, and a clear glimpse at her future as an artist, NME gave the album a favorable review. (more piano, more power vocally) Pitchfork gave the album a score of 7.5, comparing the album to the genre that inspired it: "The thrills of The Path of the Clouds are much more enjoyable than most true crime fiction, but it leaves you breathless." The album received four stars from UNCUT, MusicOMH, Rock n Reel, MOJO, and Record Collector. Other reviewers were much more positive, with All Music Guide (4 12 stars) praising the album's "exquisitely crafted and dazzling songs, which refuse to hold tragedy at arm's length" and Sputnikmusik (superb: 4.5), which say that "The Path of the Clouds... should be listened to uninterruptedly, in its entirety" and recommending that "The Path of the Clouds... should be listened to, in its entirety."

In August 2022, a North American tour took place, and a European tour was scheduled for November 2022.

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